Johann Justin Schierschmid

Johann Justin Schierschmid (born December 27, 1707 in Gotha ; † December 26, 1778 in Erlangen ) was a German legal scholar , philosopher and university professor .

Life

Schierschmid was the son of an officer in the city battalion. He attended the illustrious grammar school in Gotha and then went to the University of Jena in 1727 . He moved to the University of Marburg , where he continued his studies with Christian Wolff . In 1732/1733 he was in Gotha and began writing his first legal work, Elementa juris civilis ad ductum Institutionum, methodo scientifica conscripta . Subsequently, on April 14, 1733, he was able to obtain a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Erfurt . He then went to the University of Leipzig and from there briefly to the University of Halle . In 1734 he received his doctorate in both rights in Halle with the dissertation de imputatione culpae civili , but initially stayed in Leipzig until 1737.

Schierschmid then went to the University of Jena as a lecturer in 1737 , where he became an associate professor of philosophy in 1739 . He also worked as a lawyer in Jena . 1743 he received a reputation as a full professor of the rights and philosophy at the newly founded University of Erlangen but he followed until the 1744th In 1745 he first became the fourth professor at the Faculty of Law and obtained the title of court advisor . From 1746 to 1748 he was syndic of the university. In 1758 he became third, in 1760 second and finally in 1767 first professor of the faculty. In 1776 he went into retirement . At the same time he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor . He continued to give lectures at the university until his death.

Publications (selection)

• Dissertations Inaugurali Imputationem Culpae Civilem , Hendel, Halle 1734.
• Imputatio culpae circa contractus cumprimis innominatos et reales , Leipzig 1735.
• Dissertatio philosophica de principio determinationis praedicati, eiusque usu , Cröker, Jena 1737.
• IIS General rule, who from the disputing parties to take over the evidence in a legal transaction , Erlangen 1754

literature

• Heinrich Friedrich Delius : Life and character of the blessed Lord Privy Councilor Schierschmid , Walther, Erlangen 1779.
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Schierschmid, Johann Justin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 185 f.
• Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn (Ed.): The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers , Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 9781474256001 , p. 660 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Justin Schierschmid  in the German Digital Library